It's one thing if she just didn't want to blurt out what that dude did to her in front of his kid, but why did she have to go further and whitewash it?? She could've just left! Not a fan of how the author wrote this interaction, like it's some good and wonderful thing that she talked up the kid's scummy dad (who definitely didn't deserve his past to be rugswept - he's a child predator who sexually assaulted her and then ruined her reputation by saying it was her who initiated it).